the shoe theory
POSTED AT 06:44 PM

cruboy

"to each foot its own shoe." - mede montaigne

i guess there have been theories about shoes... shoe sizes in particular... im not quite sure what it was about or how it actually works but i have one particular that is based on my personal experience...

i find it rather weird that every morning when i use the length of commonwealth avenue going to work in the morning i find a shoe on the road... old and beaten up, new and clean, sporty, formal, out door type... with or with out socks... and i find one too often that i made me develop a theory... that i, no matter what day, going through that short part of the avenue and looking hard enough, will find a shoe in the middle of the road or near the curb. it has yet to be proven wrong...

it normally helps if i actively look, but it sometimes happen by accident as well... and time and again it has always made me smile... so no matter how serious and deep in thoughts i am, i would just beam... and chuckle within... in fact i have begun to start to believe that the day would turn out great if i happen to see a shoe on the road. and i thought maybe i could wish for something just like what we do with the first brightest star we see or with a falling star at night... so if you want to make a wish in the morning... go look for a shoe on the road.

"in these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes in the morning." - csandburg

i guess it is natural to be pinning hopes and aspiration on something out of the ordinary and even bordering on the absurd. people in general are optimist... (and i don’t think anybody can actually argue this point... because if there were pessimist people... like the hardcore pessimist type... they would have been too miserable and would have killed themselves eventually... i always thought that it is not misery but absolute hopelessness that leads to suicide... anyway i digress) we in general endure, survive, adapt and are determined to live... this is because we believe that there will always be something good in the end.

besides i think it is just funny to think that somewhere in the stretches of commonwealth avenue there is somebody hopping on one leg desperately looking for his other shoe.

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